In addition to our multitude of sins on other fronts, it seems we don’t cover the TV business worth a damn, either. I guess what I’ve learned is that the media have reflexively searched for the easy answers to trends…
Month: December 2003
Gone tabbing
Papers in the UK are unleashing tabloid editions. No topless P.3 girls for the Times of London, alas, but there appears to be a trend afoot: The move by The Times and The Independent is slightly different from the approach…
Top 20 under 40
Presstime magazine lauds “young” newspaper people of accomplishment. Just what the hard-chargers of our industry need: One more reason to lament not getting a raise this year.
Perhaps the worst column ever written…
… in which a 40something white guy tries to talk like a rapper, making fools of himself, his paper, his editors and the people who brought him into this world. Heads up to the Testy Copy Editors for flagging this…
Hope you like your job
… because there’s not going to be much hiring next year, E&P reports. And I just love this part: Companies “see some improving advertising trends right now,” and that keeps them from continuing to downsize, said Kevin Gruneich, newspaper analyst…
How did editors become the enemy?
Daniel Okrent, the new New York Times watchdog: My copy will not be edited, except for grammar, spelling, and the like. I’ve seen the Times’ copy editing test. You have to be really, really good to ace it. Then you…
S.F. Chron last paper on earth to paginate
They were still doing paste-up at the San Francisco Chronicle when I moved to the Bay Area in 1999. Now the paper has finally made the jump to pagination. Dan Frost writes about the changes: The Chronicle this year installed…
I got yer instant art, pal
Maud Newton links to story about “crap art,” which is described as follows. Carnegie Mellon University graduate student Tom Murphy challenges musicians to write, record and mix an entire album in one 24-hour period “preferably with no sleep breaks in-between.”…
A day at the beach
Why Mondo Winkie’s family is probably not like yours: We all had been making merry (drinking a lot) and my granddad, dad and I decide to go walk on the beach. Yes, the mid-Atlantic beach is cold during Christmastime, but…
Worry of the day
Will SideSalad run out of disturbing Santas before Christmas gets here?